Bagworms defoliating and killing evergreens in our area have become an increasing problem in the last few years. From now through May, inspect evergreen trees and shrubs for bagworms. This insect is ...
Did you ever play hide-and-seek as a kid? I’m sure many of you did. A common landscape pest plays, well, just “hide” with us on our evergreens – the bagworm. The insect does it not by hiding in the ...
“Why are the pinecones on my tree moving?” a client asks. “Because those aren’t pinecones, they’re bagworms,” I reply. Dangling from evergreens like teardrop-shaped Christmas tree ornaments, bagworms ...
Above and below: bagworm on arborvitae. Photo by John E. Woodmansee. This is the time of year when people begin to notice dying evergreens. One notorious suspect for this condition is bagworms. They ...
Evergreen trees and shrubs, especially Colorado Blue Spruce, should be checked now for bagworms. If not controlled, a large bagworm population can defoliate and kill an evergreen in a fairly short ...
WEBVTT IT IS GOING TO BE MISERABLY HOT. THE FORECAST IS COMING UP FOR IT -- IS COMING UP. THEY ARE A MUNCHING MENACE AND EAT DOZENS OF SPECIES OF TREES AND SHRUBS. SO WHAT CAN YOU DO TO STOP THE ...
In the past several years, we have seen an astounding number of bagworms in Shawnee County. As with most insects, populations rise and fall with weather conditions and food availability. Typically, we ...
They look like mini pinecones hanging from a branch. They're small, but destructive."Never saw anything like this," said Ed LaMere. "Nothing like this."Bagworms are experts in camouflage and prey on ...
Last fall my husband and I had some trees planted in our yard. We live in a rural area and have some established evergreens. The man who was planting the new trees happened to notice something on our ...